Vanessa Wittman

Overview

On August 21, 2008, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. announced that Vanessa A. Wittman will become an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MMC. Ms. Wittman's appointment as Executive Vice President will be effective September 10, 2008 and her designation as Chief Financial Officer will become effective at a date to be determined, but in no event later than October 15, 2008. Ms. Wittman, age 41, was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Adelphia Communications Corporation, a cable television company, from March 2003 until December 2006. In June 2006, Adelphia sold the majority of its revenue-generating assets to two other cable companies. Adelphia's Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization was deemed effective in February 2007. From February 2000 to March 2003, Ms. Wittman served as Vice President of Corporate Development, and then as Chief Financial Officer of broadband network services provider 360networks Inc. She served as Senior Director, Corporate Development for Microsoft Corporation from April 1999 to February 2000 and as Chief Financial Officer for Metricom, Inc., a wide area wireless data solutions provider, from April 1997 to November 1998. Ms.Wittman graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1989 and received an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in 1991 where she was a Shermet Scholar.